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The silent majority of experts (2012)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,819 posts.
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From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
We’re sharing lessons learned from shifting our Android development from Java to Kotlin. Kotlin is a popular language for Android development and offers some key advantages over Java. As of today,…
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They don't even know the fundamentals
Ah yes, the fundamentals or endless list of things that everybody working in the field ought to know. Atomicity, something, something, Durability? To avoid any future embarrassments I made sure to dust off my Wild Hog book 1 and re-read the section on ACID. Here’s an excerpt directly from the book:
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Why is Rust difficult?
Rust is considered difficult to learn by many people. Indeed, when I learned it, I considered it to be the hardest programming language up to that time I’ve met. And that says something, since I have a habit of learning whatever language I find interesting. Looking back, I’m not sure I was correct, C++ is probably…
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I wrote my own smart home software
I’ve wanted to automate my home for a long time… having a background in industrial automation and software development, it felt like I was in a great position to be an early adopter.
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In praise of –dry-run
For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have…
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300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android
Every click interaction in mobile browsers is hampered with a 300ms delay, but that's gone in Chrome 32 for mobile-optimized sites!
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One game, by one man, on six platforms: The good, the bad and the ugly
Recently, Valve announced that Counter-Strike 2 would no longer support macOS . As a one-man indie developer who has released a game supporting macOS , I find myself at first surprised at Valve’s decision. But after looking back at my own journey of supporting six platforms, I feel I can understand Valve’s perspective.
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A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown
Subtitle: Making Windows Slower Part 3: Process Destruction In the summer of 2017 I wrestled with a Windows performance problem. Process destruction was slow, serialized, and was blocking the syste…
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Tech Choices I Regret at Spectrum
Spectrum is an open source chat app for large online communities. With the benefit of hindsight, here are the technology choices I regret.
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Psychic Signatures in Java
The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, thi…
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Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of mozjpeg 2.0. Early this year, we explained that we started this project to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining ...
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Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 months on GitHub
Since spring, and even before that, I have participated in a great collaborative effort on writing a book on Homotopy Type Theory. It is finally finished and ready for public consumption. You can get the book freely at http://homotopytypetheory.org/book/ . Mike Shulman has written about the contents of the book , so I…
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Node v6.9.0 (LTS)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Why are video games graphics challenging? Productionizing rendering algorithms
Intro This post will cover challenges and aspects of production to consider when creating new rendering / graphics techniques and algorithms – especially in the context of applied research fo…
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Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here.
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Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
dsq is a commandline tool for running SQL queries against all the data file types that DataStation supports (JSON, CSV, Parquet, Excel, etc.). Here is a simple example:
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Documenting your architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all
Instead of drawing UML diagrams, why not generate them from a network traffic capture of the running system?
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GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace - where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software all in natural language.
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Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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PHP Addiction
I wrote Tumblr, Instapaper, and Second Crack in PHP. I continue to use it because I know it extremely well, it’s very easy to use and deploy, and it’s nearly maintenance-free on servers. When you’re a programmer forced to also be your own sysadmin, that’s very attractive.
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.NET Blazor
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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Why I code as a CTO
Assembled CTO John Wang on why coding makes him a better leader—and how AI tools are redefining what it means to build at scale.
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Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.